It'll cost you. Plus I have to warn you up front that she likes single malt scotch, forty bucks a glass, so not a cheap date. But well worth it. Hell, the woman played bluegrass mandolin and drove a classic Alpha Spider . I am truly the world's biggest idiot.

I'm up at 3thirty AM nearly now, pondering the logic on that one,,,,,,,,,,,,ummmmm Maybe she said THAT to hurt me too ?

Mike

Mike,

I think you must be married to one of my wife's long-lost relatives. Those are things she would, and has, said to me. She told me one time, "I don't understand you. You spend all that time making 'crafts' and then all you do with them is throw them in the water."

'Crafts????????' Flies are crafts???

And to make things worse, she looks at my flies with a totally blank stare. I even tried to make a few dries on a #20 and it took me forever. (I don't know what hurt more: the cramps in my hands or the pain in my eyes.) I was really happy with the outcome and all I got was a "Ho-hum. What's on TV tonight?"

Whenever she sees a rod or reel on my computer screen, I am told I had better not even be thinking about getting another one because I already have more of them than I have hands.

And she thinks the dumbest things I do is catching fish only to put them back into the water...well, except I will do it even when it is raining.

__________________“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” –Henry David Thoreau“Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.” –Groucho Marx

As far as lawn casting goes, well I used to do a lot of it. Sometimes when I'd come home from work; a little tired and frustrated (you know, those days just happen every now and then.........), Marty would say: "why don't you go out and cast for awhile?" I would, and it always brought me right back to a much more comfortable place. I can't concentrate on line placement and work-related things at the same time; fortunately for me, it's the work-related things that fade away when I'm fishing/casting.

....but, if fq13 is passing out info on that fly fishing, single malt drinking, classic alfa-driving adventure woman (you did say that she was drop dead gorgeous........right?), then.................um,............I'll take a copy.....................

As far as lawn casting goes, well I used to do a lot of it. Sometimes when I'd come home from work; a little tired and frustrated (you know, those days just happen every now and then.........), Marty would say: "why don't you go out and cast for awhile?" I would, and it always brought me right back to a much more comfortable place. I can't concentrate on line placement and work-related things at the same time; fortunately for me, it's the work-related things that fade away when I'm fishing/casting.

....but, if fq13 is passing out info on that fly fishing, single malt drinking, classic alfa-driving adventure woman (you did say that she was drop dead gorgeous........right?), then.................um,............I'll take a copy.....................

Pocono

She was going for her residency, I was off to get a university teaching gig, no way we'd be in the same town, so we just parted ways.
And, no more cute, but hey, still out of my league. Its one of those memories that will make me smile when I'm in the old folks home.

She was going for her residency, I was off to get a university teaching gig, no way we'd be in the same town, so we just parted ways.
And, no more cute, but hey, still out of my league. Its one of those memories that will make me smile when I'm in the old folks home.

What I usually get is the "Just smile(fake) and nod like you think it's great" look.
I don't practice cast in the yard, but that's her reaction to the flies I show her. This is after she received the hurt look for "Isn't that the one you showed me the other day?".
I act more enthused when she shows me her new fingernail paintjob every week. Least she could do is reciprocate.

My buddy and I were laughed at for fishing in the front yard last night. We busted out the 9WT and made some casts in the grass in preparation for our trip to Michigan in a few weeks. Our wives thought it was funny and were attempting to get pictures of us fishing for grass to post on Facebook. We foiled their attempts to make fun of us in social media but they still had a good laugh.

They just don't understand us.

That is PATHETIC! Have some self respect, clip the hooks off one of those articulated salmon streamers and fish for neighborhood cats. Your friend can also practice his netting technique at the same time.